Speak Av Louisa Hall

<p><i>She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen?</i><br><br>From a pilgrim girl''s diary, to a traumatised child talking to a software program; from Alan Turing''s conviction in the 1950s, to a genius imprisoned in 2040 for creating illegally lifelike dolls: all these lives have shaped and changed a single artificial intelligence - MARY3. In <i>Speak</i> she tells you their story, and her own. It is the last story she will ever tell, spoken both in celebration and in warning.<br><br><i>When machines learn to speak, who decides what it means to be human?</i> <br><br>''TRANSFIXING''<br><i>New York Times</i><br><br>''BRILLIANT''<br><i>Huffington Post</i><br><br>''INCREDIBLE''<br><i>Buzzfeed</i><br><br>''HYPNOTIC''<br><i>Guardian</i><br><br>''A MASTERPIECE''<br><i>NPR</i></p>